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Every time we head down this path, I end up with the “dual-booting” is great crowd, often because they fully understand how to deal with the boot record and various partitions involved. For most people, goto to ANY Linux forum and you will see the “success” of that mindset.
Still, there are some safe ways of [...]

Gnomie Bryan Tidwell writes:

Use Ubuntu. Debian is too hard, especially for a beginner (take it from me)! If you’re not afraid to install codecs, you are golden.

Use forums — they are there for your benefit! Don’t be afraid to post multiple threads — if anything, this just puts more documentation out there for other people.

Upgrade, [...]

LifeHacker is carrying a story on how you can slim down and speed up your link installation:
“While Linux is pretty efficient with a computer’s resources out of the box, there are still ways you can make it run leaner and meaner on your desktop. Using a little bit of know-how, a willingness to run [...]

CarloTheMan at the Ubuntu Forums on how you can get Veoh Player working in Ubuntu. The trick is setting Wine up properly (and that’s always the trick, isn’t it?).
“As we know, Veoh Networks is a great place to trade productivity for entertainment, but usually, we as Linux users, feel a bit left out after five [...]

If there is one tip I have been looking for a simple, duplicable solution to, it has to be s simpler way to make Gmail your default email client. Seriously, would it not be fantastic to simply click on a mailto link in Firefox and then have it automatically set you up with the right [...]

Coming off of Photoshop to GIMP is almost painful. I can certainly tell you that my wife never would. So using Crossover Office with Photoshop for Windows might be the easiest path. With that said, if you are looking to get your GIMP on, here are some great places to get your feet wet and [...]

It’s enough to make you want to scream, having connectivity issues with your favorite Linux distro. And frankly why most people are best off with a Mac Mini, as it sometimes means getting your hands dirty. Well, being the determined geek that I am, I opted to get something resolved that has been bugging me [...]

Back in my Windows days, there was one application I simply could not live without - Tray-It! Designed as a simple yet brilliant application that allowed the user to dock any application next to their clock in the system tray on the Windows OS. Definitely one of my favorites, that’s for sure.
Back in the Linux [...]

Maybe it could be easier to secure reliable VPN access for Linux users, but I tend to doubt it. Thanks to Witopia, all I would need to do is purchase a copy of personalVPN and then email the support dept for instruction on getting things setup. Again, it could be made easier for potencial users [...]

So you just downloaded Flock, fell in love with it and believe this is the browser for you. Previously, you already installed all the preferred plugins for Firefox, yet Flock does not see them on Ubuntu? Where are the Flock plugins on Ubuntu! Not to worry, just paste this into a terminal window as you [...]

So you just upgraded to Ubuntu Gutsy and you cannot get the Internet to work? You appear to have a LAN connection or Network-Manager is allowing you to connect to your access point, yet when you type in http://www.google.com, the domain will not resolve - it just keeps reading ‘connecting’. Why? Use of of ipv6 - [...]

Boy, this sure looks nice, eh? Simple, GUI goodness that you might think will work just fine. And for most of you, it might, so long as you can meet these requirements.

synaptics driver version x.y.z (where x.y.z is above 0.14.4) and the
libsynaptics version X.Y.Z (where X.Y.Z is above or equals x.y.z) installed.

Oh, then you need [...]

This is actually much simpler than you might expect, therefore this may be a short post. Alright, let’s get on with it.

Open up Write or Calc.
Goto Tools, then Options.
Locate the setting on the left called ‘Memory’. Then on the right, check to make sure that the following are in place.

Number of steps is set to [...]

If you are suffering a mouth breathing moment like I did today, happen to be using Ubuntu Edgy and found that after an update, that your GUI has suddenly left the building - don’t panic. Just try this.
First off, boot from a live CD on the problem PC. Now open up a terminal window and [...]

One of the most common issues people have after getting their codecs installed into Ubuntu, is the sad discovery that Ubuntu won’t play Avi files from inside of your Firefox browser. Well, there is a fairly simple fix for this - lose GStreamer and switch to Xine.
You do this from Synaptic located from System, Administration [...]

Thought I might pass along a little Saturday tip for you here. If you are using the default video playback settings to watch/playback video in Ubuntu only to find that it is just not living up to your standards, give this a shot:
Open a terminal window from Applications, Accessories. The using your mouse to cut [...]

Some great tips listed below. If you are new to Linux or are thinking about trying it, you want to read the following article with great interest!

Curious about streaming video yet not sure where to begin? If you are looking at doing it from the hobbyist perspective, then this article below might just what you are looking for.

Nothing like a little bash work to start off the week, eh? OK, I thought this was a clever way to lead into this whole bit. But I guess it might have just been as well and good had I simply told you that the article below gives you a way to declaring an array. [...]

Now this is something that I did not know! According to this article from NewsForge, you can indeed setup OpenOffice to connect to a SQL Database.